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Rock and a Hard Place


Manipulating people by offering limited or fixed choices expecting the victim to choose the lesser of two evils.

At the heart of this dirty trick is the weak or ill-prepared manager who has decided to short cut authentic decision making and feels that it is okay to coerce people into doing things that they would rather not do. Having realised that their intended victim will not ...

 

More details and guidance on how to deal with someone playing this Dirty Trick can be found in "21 Dirty Tricks at Work" by Colin Gautrey and Mike Phipps and published by Capstone Wiley.





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